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XINRAN WANG SELECTED WORKS FROM 2021-2022 Renmin University of China E-MAIL:15010766013wxr@gmail.com TEL:+8615010766013
EDUCATION
Renmin University of China 09/2019-07/ 2023
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design
GPA: 87.97/100
Courses: Fundamentals of Design, Landscape and Architecture Design, Introduction to Architecture Design
CONTESTS
WLA - World Landscape Architecture Awards 05/2022
Shortlisted with Project Welcome Home, Wandering Elephants!
10th National College Digital Art & Design Award 06/2022
Third Prize with Project Clusters of Islands-Renovation of Dormitory Building Landscape
Shenzhen Design Week 12/2022
Roam and Harvest-Agritecture project on Terrain Vague exhibited on Shenzhen Design Week
WORKSHOP
Micro-cities-La Model Prison Reconstruction 02/2022
Advisor- Prof.Karin Hofert
Designed the master plan and social generators
KEY SKILLS
Software ：Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketch-Up, Illustrator,V-ray, ArcGIS
Language ：Mandarin (Native) English (TOFEL:101)
Interest ：Painting, Photography, Psychology, Hiking, Writing, Skateboarding, Guitar
PRIZES
2022 Second-class Scholarship
2022 Excellent Student Cadre
2021 Social service Scholarship
2019 First Prize, University Chorus Competition
2019 Third Prize, Aerobics Competition for College Student
ACTIVITY
2022 Teaching Assistant of General Psychology Course
2021 President, Publication Department of Peer Counseling Center
2019 Volunteer, Sino-Euro Educational Forum
CONTENTS
01 02 03 04
ROOTING
Mangrove Coast Project Date: 08/2022- 11/2022
WANDER WITH THE SOUL Community Park of Zhuanta Hutong Date: 05/2021
ROAM AND HARVEST
Agritecture project on Terrain Vague Date: 08/2022
WELCOME HOME, WANDERING ELEPHANTS!
Large-Scale Landscape Research Project Date: 11/2021-2/2022
HEALING IN SYMBIOSIS
I have always had a considerable enthusiasm for environmental study, ever since exploring the topic during a summer camp at a very early age. In this study tour, organized by Global Natural History Day, our team visited Asian Elephant Breeding and Rescue Centre at Wild Elephant Valley in Yunnan, China. Located in a minority-Dai settlement, the village made of local bamboo is encompassed by dense banana groves in the mountain, which contrasts with most of the fast-developing urban contexts I have ever seen. As local culture exhibits great respect for nature, together with the eminent efforts made by the rescue organization, I was able to see an impressive moment when the elephant Dad successfully lead the baby elephant back to wildlife and soon disappeared from sight in the jungle.
I was deeply touched and realized the importance of the symbiotic relationship between human beings, culture, and nature in restoring a healthy ecosystem. In my view, landscape design is not just about designing a single space, but about designing systems of intimate symbiotic relationships between objects in which they can heal physically or spiritually and co-exist benignly over time.
01 ROOTING
Mangrove Coast Project
ADVISOR: Peng Yang
INDIVIDUAL WORK: Xinran Wang
CLASSIFICATION: Academic /Large-Scale Landscape Project AREA: 63 9 ha SITE: Fujian, China TIME: 08/2022- 11/2022
STUDIO : Landscape Architecture Designn III
STATEMENT
The site is located on the southern coast of China and is highly affected by wave erosion. Most of the flood protection systems on the site are hard revetments, so the ecological sustainability is weak. This project removes the hard revetment and wave walls, allowing the mangrove seeds behind the original revetment to migrate with the tide to the shore. At the same time, by shaping the topography, the seeds can take root, creating a resilient natural wave barrier and improving the local ecology.
3D
printed model ConveySeeds
First, the dam and wall of the fish pond were broken through, and then prefabricated steel plates were inserted into the sand to create a new terrain through tidal silting of the sand, while the water flow carried the mangrove seeds into the terrain to take root and grow.The seeds of mangroves will fall in the water and drift with the water sulfur to the place where they take root. CREATE UNITE TERRIANS UNITE TERRIAN Soften MANGROVES FOR VARIOUS IMMERSION DEPTH The formation of terrrain immitates thenatural habitat mode of mangroves and selects mangrove species that adapt to different immersion depth to achieve species diversity CONSTRUCTION TREE SPECIES DEPTH MODE HABITAT MODE Live Space Tree Path Canopies Rhizophora stylosa Bruguiera gymnorhiza Kandelia candel Aegiceras corniculatum Avicennia marina LANDFORMS FOR MANGROVES MIGRATION LANDFORM FORMATION CONSTRUCTION DETAIL CONSTRUCTION
WANDER WITH THE SOUL
Community Park of Zhuanta Hutong
ADVISOR: Yingjian Wang
INDIVIDUAL WORK: Xinran Wang
CLASSIFICATION: Small-Scale Landscape Project
AREA: 2.1ha
SITE: Beijing, China TIME: 05/2021
FROM FAIRYTALE TO THE SITE
The project is located in Zhuangta Hutong, one of the oldest hutongs in Beijing, which has experienced both prosperity and decline. It has now become a question of how to find peace of mind for the people living in this crowded community. In Wilde's story, he answers this question: how to face love, evil and death, and how to feel peace in life. In the story, the fisherman experiences love, indecision, betrayal and death. The design translates these elements of the fairy tale into spaces in which one can feel the emotions. At the same time, an underground car park is designed to release the traffic pressure within the community. The exit from the car park is set in a park where one can feel the healing and peace that comes from the connection between soul and nature.
The plot of "The Fisherman and his Soul" is set in motion when the title character accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his soul away. The Soul makes several attempts to persuade the Fisherman to take him back, eventually convincing him to do so with the tale of a beautiful dancer who lives nearby. Too late does the Fisherman discover that the soul which he sent out into the world without a heart has become evil.
SITE CONTEX | ZHUANTA HUTONG
Written By OSCARE WILDE Drawn By ROBERTO TOMEI
Transportation Entrances
the roads with parked cars site
existing entrances wall site
Roads of Hutong are blocked by numberous cars. Therefore, an underground parking lot is necessary.
New Entrances
The site is currently enclosed by the wall with three entrances that connect different neighborhoods.
Block the barriers and add new entrances to increase the accessibility of the site.
Build an underground parking lot to increase ground space and form a new route connecting parking lot, park and homes.
A young fisherman accidentally catches a mermaid in his net and falls in love with the Mermaid. ‘Little Mermaid, little Mermaid, love thee. Take me for thy bridegroom, for love thee.’ ‘If only thou wouldst send away thy soul, then could love thee.’ ‘The love of the body is vile,’ cried the Priest. 'Father,Tell me how can send my soul ‘Of what use is man’s soul to us? will sell thee my soul,’ 'Dance with me, then will send your soul away.' The Soul stood on the lonely beach and watched them. And when they had sunk down into the sea, went weeping away over the marshes. ‘Love is better,’ answered the young Fisherman. And the Soul said to him, 'When left thee turned my face to the East and journeyed. There is nothing better than Wisdom,’ There is nothing better than Riches,’ Soul waked him and said to him, ‘Rise up and go to the room of the merchant, even to the room in which he sleepeth, and slay him, and take from him his gold, for we have need of it.’ Every morning he called to the Mermaid, and every noon he called to her again, and at night-time he spake her name. Yet never did she rise out of the sea to meet him. The young Fisherman lying drowned in the surf, and clasped in his arms was the body of the little Mermaid. And when the young Fisherman knew that was an evil Soul and would abide with him always, he fell upon the ground weeping bitterly.
02
STORY FRAMEWORK RELATIONSHIP OF MAIN CHARACTERS The design translates these elements of the fairy tale into spaces | THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL INTRODUCTION ISSUES | "CROWDED& UNREACHABLE" GOALS | "ACCESSIBLE & SPACIAL" Underground Parking Lot
WANDER
FEEL THE HEALING AND PEACE
BIRD'S EYE VIEW MODEL
CHARACTERS
OF THE SHADOW LOOP SECTIONS OF THE FISHERMAN AND MERMAID LOOP 1 2 3 4 5 1.Separation 2.Wandering 3.Reunion 4.Betrayal 5.Death 1.Encounter 2.Companion 3.Hasitation 4.Companion 5.Death 1 2 3 4 5 4
garden
they seem to
the main roles' steps, feeling
happiness, hasitation or even pain.
way, people
meaning
and
SMOOTH BLACK GRANITE THIVK CEMENT MORTAR WATERPROOF LAYER THIVK CEMENT MORTAR REINFORCED CONCRETE DOUBLE GLAZING PAVER CONCRETE CONCRETE THICK GRAVEL SOIL COMPACTION PUMP 1000 600 8000 950 900 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 8 0 0 2 5 0 0 9 0 0 4 3 0 0
WITH
SECTIONS
As people walking along the
path,
follow
the common feeling of human being, including
In this
begin to think about the
of life,
finally get pease of mind.
People living upstairs also have a good
the park
People can choice different paths, lie on the grassy slope to rest, climb up and down the slope and
People can go through the
The pool represents death. People can meditate
This sinking road which makes people feel
view of
from above.
wander as the soul in the fairy tale.
flower border there.
there.
depressed represents betrayal.
light
The bottom of the pool in the park is glass. The sun will reflect beautiful
and shadow in the basement, which is connected to the parking lot exit. This symbolizes the sea and death in the fairy tale. Give people a special experience. This waterscape can bring people both auditory and visual enjoyment, and bring spiritual comfort to people who are going home and the community.
When enjoying the sunshine on the grass slope and meditating in front of the pool, their hearts build a bond with the surroundings, from which they get healed.
The park contains both onground farming and vertical farming in the building, which provides a attractive farming system, including farming, harvest, and purchase.
By following this route, visitors can have a comprehensive experience of urban farming and feel relaxed by immerse in a natural environment. WANDERING OVER THE FARM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Plant ng Pool for Short-term Rent 2 Green Houses in the Garden 3 V sit Vertica Farming 4 Visit Facade Planting 5 Agriproduct Production Workshop 6 Experience Soilless Planting 7 Rest and Play by the Pool 8 Sit on the Lawn and Watch the Show RECYCLABLE FARMING SYSTEMS
POLLUTION REMOVAL BY PLANT ABSORPTION AND RAINWATER PURIFICATION
04
WELCOME HOME,WANDERING ELEPHANTS!
2022 WLA Awards Shortlisted in the Student Awards - Concept Design
ADVISOR: Yuhong Li
GROUP WORK: Xinran Wang, Yuke Li
ROLE: Concept 50%, Design 50%, Drawing 70%, Modeling60%
CLASSIFICATION: Large-Scale Landscape Research Project AREA: 88 ha
SITE: Yunnan, China TIME: 11/2021-2/2022
A herd of wandering elephants in southwest China's Yunnan providence has embarked on a 18-month-long adventure of mammoth proportions from 2020 to 2021. We systematically analysed the possible reasons of this phenomenon. We aim to select and create more suitable habitats for elephants, and to show them better migration paths by setting up village buffer zones and food-source bases, optimising habitat tree species and monitoring, in order to protect elephants while also protecting human property and personal safety. Through these changes, we hope to drive the economic development of local villages and explore the potential of local tourism, building a virtuous cycle of production-tourism-ecology and achieving a win-win situation for both ecology and economy.
ANOMALOUS MIGRATION OF ELEPHANTS
Mengyangzireserve Yunnan,China
Population
HABITAT DETERIORATION
National Highway "213" blocked the east-west migration path.More elephants are moving north out of the reserve.
The
Elephant migration is hampered by expanding villages as population increases. And conflicts between human and elephants have intensified.
The area of rubber forest and tea plantation has increased rapidly which has greatly reduced the habitat area of wild Asian elephants.
Plants grown in the food-source base mature at the same time which not only increases the elephants' dependence on crops in villages.
Jinghong Hydropower station results in an isolated elephant population in Mengkuang area of Lancang County.
ELEPANT FRIENDLY STRATEGY
BREAK THE BARRIARS IMPROVE THE RESERVES STATEGY FOR VILLAGE ECOLOGICAL TOURISM
CREATE MORE SUITABLE
The additive analysis of elevation and slope factors enables a preliminary determination of the extent of suitable habitat
Elevation
The most suitable habitat for elephants is below 800 metres in altitude
Slope
The most suitable habitat for elephants has a slope of 10° or less.
Habitat quality
CREATE MORE SUITABLE HABITATS FOR ELEPHANTS
This proposal is based on the Meng Yangzi Conservation Area in Xishuangbanna, and takes a part of Guanping Village, Jinghong City as an example. We aim to select and create more suitable habitats for elephants.
Barrier Conflict(HEC) Before After
Habbit Rubber Village Habbit
<800m 800~1300m 1300~1500m >1500m
<10° 10°~30° 30°~40° >40° The most suitable habitat Suitable habitat Unsuitable habitat
Habbit
A combination of altitude and slope factors were analysed to produce optimum, suitable and unsuitable habitats. Corridor Habbit
Food-source bace Village
SITE
The cycle path through the village offers visitors a scenic cycling experience with views of the Homestay, tea plantations, fruit trees and food-sources base along the way.
The construction of the food source base is divided into three phases. The first phase involves villagers converting some of their fields to grow plants for the food-source base. The second stage is the plant growing stage. The third stage is when the food-source base plants mature and attract elephants to eat them.
WIN-WIN SYSTEM
